Prison News

Prison guards foiled a new attempt to smuggle a cell phone into a Brazilian prison by carrier pigeon - this one wearing a tiny backpack - and said Friday that the practice is becoming almost commonplace.

Austrian fund manager Sonja Kohn did not receive any kickbacks from Bernard Madoff to steer Bank Medici customer funds to the swindler's investment business, a Medici lawyer said on Friday.

An American soldier is missing in eastern Afghanistan, and officials say they think he is in the hands of insurgents.

The Robert Scott Correctional Facility is now empty of prisoners. The prison, on Five Mile and Beck roads in Northville Township, was closed by the State of Michigan last month, the prisoners moved to other locations.

JUL 02 -- PHOENIX Alfonso Valdez-Cota, 24, and Kaven Alfonso Chavez-Aguirre, 25, both citizens of Mexico, were sentenced on June 29, 2009, by U.S. District Judge Neil V. Wake to five years in federal prison after both defendants pleaded guilty to Conspiracy to Possess With the Intent to Distribute Heroin.

The Central Intelligence Agency crucified a prisoner in Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, according to a report published in The New Yorker magazine.

A former HealthSouth Corp. finance chief has been ordered to spend three months in federal prison for his role in the $2.6 billion financial fraud that nearly wrecked the company.

Folks need to be aware that the 16th Amendment was never ratified, that Rat Philander Knox lied to the Congress and got it passed at the same time the Federal Reserve Act came to be.

Michael Jackson's will has been filed in a Los Angeles court. The will, dated July 7, 2002, says Jackson chose not to provide for his former wife Debbie Rowe.

By Brad Kellar Herald-Banner Staff A former Royse City pastor has been sentenced to prison on federal charges he possessed and trafficked in child pornography on his church's computers.

Judge John Bates of the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] dismissed Wazir's petition, finding that Section 7 of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 [text, PDF], outlining habeas corpus matters, did not violate the separation of powers principle laid out by the US Supreme Court [official website] in United States v.

Arkansas lawmakers are calling for a subpoena-powered inquiry in the state prison system, after guards' lapses that allowed two convicted murderers to escape and caused an inmate's near death.

A Tucker woman has been sentenced to nearly five years in federal prison on charges that she used a hyperbaric chamber to make over a million dollars in fake health care claims.

Federal authorities are pressing a probe of 10 associates of Bernard Madoff despite a sentence that means the mastermind of one of the biggest financial frauds in history will spend the rest of his days behind bars, The Associated Press has learned.

A state Supreme Court panel will hear oral arguments on O.J. Simpson's bid to get out of a Nevada prison pending his appeal in an armed hotel room heist, officials said Monday.

The New York Times worked with Wikipedia to keep news of the kidnapping of one of its reporters in Afghanistan off the online user-edited encyclopedia, the newspaper reported on Monday.

A federal judge rejected Bernard Madoff's plea for leniency Monday, sentencing the 71-year-old swindler to spend the rest of his life in prison for an "extraordinarily evil" fraud that took a staggering toll on thousands of victims.

A federal judge who issued a groundbreaking order allowing military detainees in Afghanistan to go to U.S. civilian courts to challenge their confinement said Monday that the right doesn't apply to an Afghan prisoner.

Dozens of Afghan guards employed by United States forces have been arrested in connection with the killing a provincial police chief during a shoot out.

An advocacy group is taking the Harper government to court for withholding prison files on Ashley Smith, the teenaged inmate who choked herself to death in her jail cell.